![]() After the gallery is broken into Matthew asks Pat to store the painting at their flat until they can check whether it's a genuine Peploe, but Bruce gives the painting to a raffle run by the South Edinburgh Conservative Association. While working at the gallery Pat points out to Matthew (who knows almost nothing about art) that one of their paintings looks as if it could be a work of Samuel Peploe. She falls in love with her narcissistic flatmate Bruce, meets the intriguing and opinionated anthropologist Domenica Macdonald and her friend Angus, and works at an art gallery for Matthew, who was given the gallery as a sinecure position by his wealthy father. The novel tells the story of Pat, a student during her second gap year and a source of some worry to her parents, who is accepted as a new tenant at 44 Scotland Street (a real street) in Edinburgh's very wealthy New Town (coordinates: 55★7′35″N 3☁1′42″W / 55.95962°N 3.19492°W / 55.95962 -3.19492), and her various roommates and neighbours. It is the first book in a series of the same name. ![]() It was partially influenced by Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, a famous serial story. The book retains the 100+ short chapters of the original. ![]() The story was first published as a serial in The Scotsman, starting 26 January 2004, every weekday, for six months. ![]() 44 Scotland Street is an episodic novel by Alexander McCall Smith, the author of The No. ![]()
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